KEIM, William Hugh

Affiliation:  Union

Born: June 25 1813, near Reading PA

Died: May 18 1862, Harrisburg PA

Pre-War Profession: He attended Mount Airy Military School and graduated around 1829. After he graduated, he worked in the general hardware store of his father in Reading.

War Service: Keim enlisted in the Union Army for a term of 3 months and, due primarily to his political ties to Governor Andrew Curtin, he was commissioned as a major general of Pennsylvania Volunteers on April 20, 1861. His original term of enlistment having expired, he was honorably mustered out on July 21, 1861, and returned to Reading. Keim decided to re-enlist, this time for a term of 3 years. Governor Curtin commissioned him as a brigadier general of volunteers on December 20, 1861

Post War: Keim died of typhus while in the military service at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on May 18, 1862.